英国每年有十亿份餐食被浪费。我们需要食品企业与政府共同努力，将食物再分配设为常规做法。夏洛特·希尔是食品再分配机构Felix的首席执行官。这种情况有多常见呢？
你打开冰箱，发现有些食材本打算使用却一直没动，虽然它们仍可食用，但你觉得扔掉反而更省事。
A billion meals a year are wasted in this country. We need food businesses and government to make redistribution the default route Charlotte Hill is chief executive of the food redistribution organisation Felix How often does this happen? You open the fridge and find some ingredient you meant to use but didn’t get round to, and even though it’s still edible you think perhaps it’s just easier to throw it away.
据统计，英国每个家庭平均每周会浪费三顿饭，相当于每年浪费156顿。家庭冰箱里的浪费只是冰山一角。
In the UK it’s estimated that an average household wastes about three meals a week, or 156 meals a year. Household fridges are one thing.
在整个食品行业，每年因同样原因被丢弃的可供食用的剩余食物多达十亿份，总重量达47万吨——这些食物足以让全英国的儿童连续一个月每天吃到三顿饭。
But across the food sector more than 1bn meals’ worth of easily accessible surplus food is wasted each year in the UK for the same reason: because it is easier to throw it away. That equates to 470,000 tonnes – enough to feed every child in the UK three meals a day for a month.
在众多民众连基本食物都难以负担的当下，这样的浪费实在触目惊心，更令人震惊的是这些被浪费的食物不仅品质优良且营养丰富。
When so many people are struggling to afford food, that is a staggering amount, and what’s even more shocking is that it is good quality and nutritious.